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Brampton anti-abortion postcards are work of sick group

The anti-abortion people who have been leaving thousands of postcards of allegedly aborted human fetuses in Brampton mailboxes are very much like the animals who left claws and a tail on the street outside my house yesterday.

I mean no insult to animals. Raccoons — or possibly coyotes — are just doing what comes naturally. But there it was, a fluffy tail sticking out of the road like a plume of smoke.

How did a severed tail remain so perky, I wondered. Upon closer inspection, I found that the tail was still vaguely attached to two sets of tiny black toenails, left as a stark reminder of the Squirrel Nutkin that used to dig into my lawn, assiduously burying acorns for a future that was not to be.

I’m fine with this. I hate squirrels.

But not as much as I detest anti-abortion humans out to terrify small children picking up the mail out of that desire to be helpful that is so maddening to adults. What’s that? You found a postcard with blood and bits on it? Cue the shrieking Molvanian violins.

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“Darling, it’s just what mice look like when they meet a hungry bird.” And little Jimmy has nightmares that you are powerless to soothe because you can’t really tell a 5-year-old what “rape victim” means.

The cowardly group calls itself the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform — it’s the Canadian branch of the U.S. group — to make you think it’s lobbying for something pleasant like organ donation by default. It has titled this particular campaign “Face the Children.”

Its message is basically one of lassitude. What’s the point, the campaign asks, as in, what’s the point of telling pregnant women not to smoke, rescuing starving children in African nations or saving Jewish babies from the SS, when the “pre-born” are being casually slaughtered?

The campaign targets five Conservative MPs representing ridings from Ottawa to Calgary — including Stephen Harper — who they say “support the so-called ‘right’ of Canadians to decapitate, dismember and disembowel younger Canadians.”

On some postcards, photographs that purport to be of fetuses are cruelly superimposed on photos of the politicians in a way that would give PETA pause. How many small children have been confronted with these gastric creations?

Such images are part of a gross poster campaign that has been touring Canada for years, to much protest from passersby.

There’s a smiling Harper mysteriously covered with kittens, next to a smiling Harper with the head of a dark-skinned fetal corpse resting on his shoulder, like a game of Spot the Difference.

Poor MP Bal Gosal (Brampton-Springdale) has been graced with the same fetus, but its distended vulva appears to be coming out of his ear. The unfortunate MP Rick Dykstra (St. Catharines) is smiling happily at a tiny severed head and a torso that appears to have been incompetently peeled.

Stamped on the postcards are various libels I won’t repeat.

Photoshopping is often deplored for making people look unrealistically pretty but this group has gone down another road. “We recognize some children will see them …” the group told the Star Thursday. “It’s a shame young children have to see what we do to other young children.” This is Westboro Baptist “God Hates Fags” thinking. They’re the people who show up at American funerals — including those of murdered children — to protest tolerance of gays.

The anti-choice group’s website goes to every possible extreme, displaying images of Jewish corpses from the Holocaust and black babies dead from hunger, with something to offend everyone. Even women treated for ectopic (Fallopian tube) pregnancy come under attack.

My, these people are odd. That said, their gift shop is hilarious. What kind of people give their children anti-abortion lollipops? If you want a present that silences the entire family on Christmas morning, do go there. As for the abstinence aisle, there are books for teens with titles like Sex Has A Price Tag. How true that is though.

Failing that, there is a bulk discount on syphilis brochures.

This website needs a black flag on it, like a squirrel tail. Here be primitives. I feel sad and sorry for politicians or indeed anyone confronted by these mislabelled meat collages being passed off as concern for humanity.

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